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From: URBAN JOSEPH DE SOUZA 
Subject: SingleHandedSailor by DireStraits
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	SINGLE HANDED SAILOR			Contributed by:
	       by 				Alessandro Borille
						(paride@arianna.dei.unipd.it)
	dIRE sTRAITS				& Urban J deSouza
						(ujd@ecl.psu.edu)
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Key: Dm

[Written by Mark Knopfler
Published by Rondor Music/Straitjacket Songs
Copyright 1979 Phonogram, London]

Tab key_______________________
10^12	: slide from 10th to 12th fret
10^(12) : bending (one tone) on 10th fret
(12)^10 : descending bend note on 10th fret
10vv	: vibrato note
10>12	: hammer on
1212------------------
|D---------------------------
|A---------------------------
|E---------------------------
		   Dm
---------------10---------------
-----------10------13^15.--15vv-
----10>12-----------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
		   C
---------------10----------
-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
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		   G
---------------------------
-----------10------13^(15)-
----10>12------10----------
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(repeating ...)
		   Dm
---------------10----------
-----------10------13^15vv-
----10>12------------------
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		   Dm
---------------10---------------
-----------10------13^15.--15vv-
----10>12-----------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
		   C
---------------10----------
-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
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                    G        |--> a fill  (this appears in 2 types: 2nd)
------------------------------15----------------------------------------
-----------10------13^(15)--------(15)^13-------------------------------
----10>12------10--------------------------10>13The river rolled away in the night
Dm                  C             Bb      F
>Little _Gypsy Moth_ she's all tied down
Dm                  C             Bb - F
>She put her in the wind and the light
>

Verse 2
>Yeah, the sailing ship is just a-held down in chains
>From the lazy days of sail
>She's just lying there, silent pain
>You lean on the tourist rail
>

Chorus 1
Am                             Dm             Dm-C-Bb
>A mother and her baby and the College of war
                     C
>And the concrete grave
Dm                 C                 Bb         F
>You never want to fight against the river law
Gm                       Bb
>Nobody rules the waves

>            C              A7           Dm
>Yeah, on a night when the lazy wind is wailing
Bb                    C
>Around the _Cutty Sark_
 Dm            C         Bb        F
>Single-handed sailor go sailing
Gm                        Bb
>Sailing away in the dark

Guitar intro solo:  Dm / C : G   ( twice over)

Verse 3
>He's up on the bridge on the self-same night
>A mariner of dry-dock land
>Two in the morning, well there's one green light
>And the man on the barge is sayin'
>
Chorus 2
>'She's a-gonna slip away below him
>Away from things he's done'
>But he just shouts, 'Hey man whatcha call this thing?'
>Could say, 'Pride of London'
>
>On a night when the lazy wind is wailing
>Around the _Cutty Sark_
>Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing
>Sailing away in the dark
>
Final solo:

Repeat intro solo and then:

	         Dm			  Dm
|E------------------------|-----------------------|-
|B--151515^18vv---|--151515^18vv--|-
|G------------------------|-----------------------|-
|D------------------------|-----------------------|-
|A------------------------|-----------------------|-
|E------------------------|-----------------------|-

		 C			  G
------------------------|---------------------------
--151515^17vv---|-----13>1515^18.-18vv--
------------------------|--14-----------------------
------------------------|---------------------------
------------------------|---------------------------
------------------------|---------------------------

					________ ________ ________ ________
		    Dm			|   3  | |   3  | |   3  | |   3  |
--------------------------|-------------------------------------------------
--18^(20)--18 And the man on the barge is sad
(And the man on the barge is sayin')
>
> She's gonna step away below him
('She's a-gonna slip away below him)
> Away from things he's done
> But he just shouts, "Hey man whatcha call this thing?"
> She could say, "Pride of London"
(Could say, 'Pride of London')
>
> On a night when the lazy wind is wailing
> Around the cutting saw
(Around the _Cutty Sark_)
> Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing
> Singing away in the dark
(Sailing away in the dark)

For the intro: I tried to play the long note as a slide note. I have to say
that it sounds much better.

Tab notation followed:-----------------
10^12   : slide from 10th to 12th fret
10^(12) : bending (one tone) on 10th fret
(12)^10 : descending bend note on 10th fret
10vv    : vibrato note
10>12   : hammer on
1212------------------
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---------------10---------------
-----------10------13^15.--15vv-
----10>12-----------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------

---------------10----------
-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
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---------------------------

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-----------10------13^(15)-
----10>12------10----------
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---------------10----------
-----------10------13^15vv-
----10>12------------------
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---------------10---------------
-----------10------13^15.--15vv-
----10>12-----------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
--------------------------------

---------------10----------
-----------10------13vv----
----10>12------------------
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------------------------------15----------------------------------------
-----------10------13^(15)--------(15)^13-------------------------------
----10>12------10--------------------------10>13